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KEOWEE COURIER (UNTA I II, i NI I Kl? 1849.) Pnblitihed Every Wednesday Morning .?becrlption 91 Ter Annum. Advertising Rates Reasonable. -Hy STECK, BHELOIt .V SCHRODER. Communications or a personal char acter charged for as advertise ments. Obituary notices and tributes of re spect, of not over one hundred wonls. will be prlnt9d free of charge. All ever that number must be paid for at the rate of one cent a word. Cash to accompany manuscript. x:.-- -.r_ ^rrnrrxi"ir^r~-=:-=. WAlJ?AliliA, S. C.: TUESDAY, DECEMBER ?0, 101?. Ol.?or, Dentlis I'IHMII Consumption. Heart dise.is<? is Cast coming to be one of t he great. American ailments, the Census Bureau says, in making the various causes of death in the registration area ol' the United Slates in 11<> 1 I. The total deaths from the chief causes were: Tuberculosis, all forms, 94,205; organic heart disease, 8:!,.r>2?; pneu monia, all forms, 7!i,2:t:5; accidents, 50,121; infantile diarrhoea, 15,868; cancer, all types, 44,02 I. There were 3,907 homicides. 0,li li 2 BU leides, an Increase of 1,032; 1. OHO deaths from infantile paralysis, G r? 0 from pellagra. 6,682 from whooping cough, 5243 from scarlet fever. f>,922 from measles and 12, 451 from typhoid fever. The greatest mortality from heart disease, in proportion to population, was in Vermont, tho lowest in Mon tana; the highest city mortality from that disease was in Albany, N. Y., the lowest in Scranton, Pa. The highest pneumonia death rate, over 177 per 1 00.000 ol population, was In New York State; tho lowest, R4.V, in the State of Washington. In New York city 1ho pneumonia death rate was 209.6 per 100,000 popula tion, the only cities with higher death rates from that complaint, be ing Atlanta, (ia.. Nashville, Tenn., and New Haven, Conn. Cancer caused tho most deaths rel atively to population in Vermont. 101 per 100.000 of population. The lowest rate was in Montana. The proportion of old people, according to the Census Bureau, determines tim relative mortality in heart disease and cancer. Not Beyond Help a* 87. Sleep-disturbing bladder weak ness, stiffness in joints, weak, inact ive kidney action and rheumatic pains, are all evidenco of kidney trouble. Mrs. Mary A. Dean, 47 B. Walnut St., Taunton, Mass., writes: "I have passed my 87th birthday, and thought 1 was beyond the reach of medicine, but Poley Kidney Pills have proved most beneficial in my case." Hell's drug store. adv. West Point Appoinlmeut. in addition to tho vacancies in An napolis, there is also a vacancj in West Point Military Academy. I base set .lan na ry 24, 1914, at Anderson, in the Court House, to Be te el nominees for the Annapolis ap pointemnts, and applicants for West Point will be selected ai the same time ami place. All applicants inusl reside in the Third Congressional District. Applicants for Annapolis must be between the ages ol IG and 20 years. Applicants tor Wes I Point must Ix* between the ages of 17 and 2 1 years. Applicants can ?elect either place hy notifying Hie examining hoard on the day of the examination, prior to ta k i n g t lie ex? minni ion. The same questions will be niven a; nlicants for both positions. All applicants mus! he free from serious physical defects. Thc mental examination will em brace arithmetic, algebra, geometry through (dane geometry, geography, English grammar, ll .ted States his tory and general history. Persons desiring to lane this ex amination should prepare themselves thoroughly, for the successful candi dates will have less than two months in which to prepare to enter the In stitutions named Wyatt Aiken. M. C. California Woman Seriously Alarmed "A ?hort (imo ago I contracted a severe cold which settled Oil my lillias and caused nie a great deal of annoyance. I would have had cough ing spells and m.v lungs were so sore and inflamed I began to he seri ously alarmed. A friend recom mended Chamberlain's Cough Rem edy, haying she had used it for years. I bought a bottle and it relieved my ROUgh the fi cst night, and in a week I was rid of the cold and soreness ol' my lungs," write* Miss Marie Herber, Sawn le, Cal. for sale by all deal ers. adv. 0a*~ . Tree Insured for $10,000. I,OR An?eles. Cal., Dec. 22. An avacado, or alligator pear tree, six years old, the most valuable fruit tree in the world, owned hy II. A. Woodworth, rancher, of Whittier, has been insured hy Lloyds, of lang land for $110,000 against loss by Are or frost. Las! season Mr. Woodworth clear ed 200 from this tree alone. Tho fruit brings 50 cents each. Mr. Woodworth has built a fence thirty feet high around the tree to protect. XL PETROLEUM DISPLACES COAL. California Consumes oil Equivalent lo 1,000,000 Tons Coal. On account of tho largo production of petroleum in California and lu use for fuel, coal mining lias practi cally ceased in that State, thc pro duction in the last two years being only 10,747 tons in 1911 and 10,978 tons in I!) IL', according to Edward W. Parker, ol' the I'nited States Geo logical Survey. Tho production ot petroleum In California in 1912 was 80,450,767 barrels, of which not less than 50, 000. 000 barrels was used directly for fuel. Large quantities of oil are also used in place of coal for gas making, and on the estimate that -i *A? barrels of petroleum is equiva lent to ono ton of ordinary bitumi nous coal, lt is probable that from 1. 100,000 to 1,500,000 tons of coal would he required to perform In Cal ifornia the service now rendered by petroleum in tito production ol' heat, light, and power, California oil is the principal fuel for locomotives as far north as Washington and across tho Sierra and Cascade Range, its freedom from spark? serving as a great, portection against forest lites, as compared with coal or wood fuel. It is used almost exclusively on in land and coastwise steamers and to an increasing extent hy the trans Pacific steamers. It has even dis placed coal on Puget Sound, many of the steamers of tho Canadian Pad tlc Meet plying between Vancouver, Vic toria, and other points having been equipped for oil burning. There is still, however, some demand for coal In California, particularly for domes tic use and for bunker trade at San Krancisco, but it is almost exclusive ly supplied by coal from other States and from abroad. There are, however, In California a number of small, widely separated coal fields, chief among which are the Mount Diablo Held of Contra Costa county, the Corral Hollow field of Alameda county, the Priest Valley and Trallon Reids of San Benito county, and tho Stone Canyon field of Monterey county. The first two, which are on tho eastern border of San Francisco Bay and consequently in tho wejl-cOntral part of the State, produce '''ac', lignite or sub-bitumi nous coai. The coals In Monterey county are of tho same geologic age as those farther north, but they have been altered into true bitumi nous coals. Tho alteration in the San Benito county areas has not pro gressed so far as in Monterey county, Imt tho coals closely approach the bituminous grade. None of them possess coking qualities. %2?? What more can wc clo to cc can find perfect health and using Lydia E. PinkhanVs Vt world knows of the wonderful by Lydia E. PinkhanVs Vegct men do not yet realize that al If suffering women could this grand old medicine will how quickly their suffering w We iave published in the n< more genuine testimonial let lished in the interest of any < the world -and every year \ niais, all genuine and true. Read What The BUiffton, Ohio. - " I wish to thank yon for tho pood I derived from Lydia K. Pinkham's Vegeta ble Compound sometime ago. I suffered each month stiel? agony that I could scarcely endure, and after taking th ree bottles of Lydia K. Pinkham's Vegetable Com pound I \v;is entirely cured. "Then I had an attack of organic inflammation und took Lydia K. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and I am cured. I thunk you for what your remedies have done for me and should anything bother me again, I shall ?sc it again, for I have great faith in your reme dies. You may use my test imo nial and welcome. I tell every For SO years Lydia E. Pinkl Compound han been tho standa.1 malo Ills? No one siek with Vf does justice to herself if she doe mous med leine made from roc has i ostored so many suffer! ng \ KWrite to LYDIA E.PINKH (CONFIDENTIAL) LYNN, .1 ttcr will be opened, rea hy ? woman and held in strict < Examination for Annapolis. , An examination will be held in the court house at Anderson, Satur day, January 2 4th, 1914,'to select nominees to two vacancies in the Uni ted State? Military Academy at An napolis, Md. Applicants must resido in the Third Congressional District, must be between the ages of 16 and 20 years, and must be free from serious physicist defects. Applicants will be examined men tally on arithmetic, algebra, geome try through plane geometry,"geogra phy. English grammar, United States history and general history. <'tired of Diver ( 'oinplaint. "I was suffering with liver com plaint," says Iva Smith, of Point Blank, Texas, "and decided to try a 25c. box of Chamberlain's Tablets, and am happy to say that I am com pletely cured and can recommend them to every one." Por sale by all dealers. adv. Hypersensitive. (Breen vii le News.) A South Carolinian-meaning the average South Carolinian of course Will argue about religion, philoso phy, questions of agriculture and hundreds of other questions, and all the while remain in good temper. But let a political argument begin one which applies to the politics of this State-and far too frequently this same South Carolinian presents a change of front. Even if ho keeps his amiability in evidence, he is apt to shut bis mind to argument. Con tentions of the other side fall like water on a duck's back, If an antedi luvian expression ho admitted. The South Carolinian's politics is a tiling apart, anda toucheous thing at that. Otu? must tread lightly or bad feeling will result. This condition is extremely unde sirable, as all will admit who think of it. Such hyper-sensitiveness re sults In no good. We need more tolerance ono for another's views, more willingness to grant the other man the lloor for bbs argument, and then mote willingness to admit the points bc makes. So long aa we fail to cultivate this spirit of tolerance all reforms will be held in leash, for first of all a reform must have men tal status, or have being in the minds of men. But when there is one set of men who think one way and re fuse to think any other way under any considerations, and vice versa, the way of the man who would ac complish mutual good is hard and holds out but little promise of suc cess. We need political open-minded ness. This is the first need, for upon it. depends many of the other needs, and without it these others have but little chance of realization. Georgetown, Texas.-J. A. Kim bro says: "i<'or several years past Foley's Honey and Tar Compound has been my household remedy^r all coughs, colds and lung trounces. It has given permanent relief in a num ber of cases of obstinate coughs and i colds." Contains no opiates. Refuse I substitutes. Bell's drug store. adv. OTfl?tfl invince you that you positively relief from your suffering by ?getable Compound? All the cures which have been made able Compound, yet some wei ll thal is claimed for it is true. be made to believe that do all that is claimed for it, ould end! ewspapers < >f the United States ters than have ever been pub jther medicine for women in vc publish many new testimo se Women Say! ono what your remedies have done forme."-Mrs RHODA WIN GATE, Box :>'.).% Bluffton, Ohio. Pentwater, Mich.-"A year ago T was very weak and the doctor said I had a serious displacement. I hud backache and bearing down pains so bud that I could not sit, in a chairorwalk across thc floor and 1 was in severe pain all thc time. I felt discouraged as I had taken everything I could think of and was no lie Uer. I began tak ing Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegeta ble Compound and now I am strong and healthy."-Mrs. ALICK DAHLUM, R F. D. No. -2, Box 77, Pentwater, Mich. liam's Vegetable rd remedyfor fe oraan's ailments s not try this fev ita and herbs, lt worn en to health. AM MEDICINE CO. IASS., for advice, tl anti answered MHiildonce, 101* AGRICULTURAL CONTESTS. Hule* Governing Wheat, Oats and Corn Contesta in Oroner. Following aro the rules govorning the contest and awarding of prizes for wheat, oats and corn for the year 1!M4: Any farmer, resident of Oconee county, may enter the contest, in cluding all boys from 12 to 2 1 years of age, in or out of the Hoys' Corn Club contest, for any one or more of the prizes as herein provided for, by paying an entrance fee of ono dollar per acre. The acre may he laid off In any form desired in a single lot, either In bottom or upland. Contestants for wheat, and oats must ?Miter and have their acreage laid off before the first of February, 1914. The contestants for the corn prizes must enter and have their acres laid off before the first day of May, 191 ?. Tho acre must in every case be 'aid off by some competent person and accepted by tho committee. All contestants will bo required to make affidavit, in form prescribed hy the committee, as to the number of pounds of wheat or oats, threshed In dry condition, from said acre, to be signed by himself and the party who threshed it, and file the same with the chairman of the committee on or be fore the 15th day of July, 1914. Tho sub-committee that is ap pointed for each contestant to super vise the harvesting and weighing of tho corn, and the contestant and the committee, will be required to make affidavit as to how much is gathered in the shuck, and how much shelled corn, by weight, obtained from 100 pounds in the shuck of average corn, taken from heap after all is gather ed, and tile the same with tho chair man of the committee on or before the 10th of November, 19 14. The committee will award the prizes No vember 15th, or as soon thereafter as practicable. The sub-committee must be com posed of persons of Integrity, and 21 years of age. The corn must bo gathered in dry condition and weighed from the field. Thc prize fund in each contest will be divided as follows: First prize .30 per cent. Second prize .25 per cent. Third prize .20 per cent. Fourth prize.15 percent. Fifth prize .10 percent. All contestants are required to ' send their names to the chairman of tho committee, T. Y. Chalmers, Wal halla, R. F. D. No. 2. Also send en trance fees by May 1st, 1914. Any person not complying with the above rules will be ruled out. T. Y. Chalmers, Chairman, A. H. Ellison. H. L, Venter, Committee. Voung Women: Number Surprising. The number of young women who sutler with weak back, dizzy and nervous spells, dull headache and weariness is surprising. Kidney and bladder ills cause these troubles, but if Foley Kidney Pills are taken as di rected relief follows promptly, and the ills disappear. Contain no habit forming drugs. Hell's drug store, ad. His Farewell Speech. (St. Louis (Hobo-Democrat.) James H. Wallis, "the fly man of Boise," has made Idaho the most sanitary and most flyproof Stato in tho Union. Mr. Wallis, discussing his success with a New York reporter, laughed and said: "1 have succeeded in eradicating the Hy by making all Idaho hate the Hy. even as poor old. Dan Carson hated bis wife. "Poor old Dan lay dying. His wife, melted a little for once, said to him: 'You'ro going. Dan.' "Dan, his eyes closed, made no an swer. His wife then repeated, with a sich ? " Dan, you're going; but I'll soon follow you.' "I'pon this Dan's glassy orbs open ed, and he said In a hollow voice: " 'You stay hero as long as you can.' " To Cure a Cold in One Day Take LAXATIVK BROMO Quinine. It stops the Cough and Headache and works oft the Cold. Druggists refund money it it fails to cure, Et. W. GROVE'S signature on each box. 25c. Tenderness, Tenderness does not mean weak ness, softness, effeminateness. It la consistent with strength, manliness, truth and bravery. It does not show Itself alone In the touch, but in un selfishness, thoughtfulness, consider ateness, forbearance, patience, long si Tiering. But however lt shows It self, lt is as the bloom on the peach, as spring showers on tho earth, as the music of the angels came steal ing down the plains of Bethlehem. You may not have much of this world's wealth to distribute, but you may give something better and spend a useful and beneficent life, if you will practice this lesson of shedding around you the graec of human ten derness in word and act and hy the spirit o? your life.--Rcv. F. B Meyer. WHENEVER YOU N A GENERAL TOI Thc Old Standard Grove's T? Valuable as a General Tonic Drives Out Malaria, Enrich the Whole System, For G; You know what you are taking when as the formula is printed on every label tonic properties of QUININE and IROI tonic and is in Tasteless Form. It has Weakness, general debility and loss of i Mothers and Pale, Sickly Children. Relieves nervous depression and low sp purifies the b'ood. A True Tonic and Sn No family skoeld be without it. Guarant The Prize Enigma. Half a dozen men were discussing the effects of the reduced tariff as they were eating lunch, says the Philadelphia Ledger. This from a lawyer. C. J. Murtaugh: "I bought a pair of gloves, for which I paid $2. I asked the salesman from whom I had previously purchased gloves if the tariff wasn't ag to give me a blt of a reduction. The salesman said there might be a difference of 12 cents, but the manufacturer would take about half and the store the other half, and the customer would get nothing." N. H. Swayne, purveyor of pig iron and dispenser of a high grade of vocal music, added: " 'Wh <t re duction will I get on this new suit?' 1 asked my tailor. 'None,' he re plied, 'as the difference in the ac tual cost of the wool ls only $1 or so. Labor ls the chief element in your clothes, and the tariff has not reduced the price of that commod ity.' " President Ripley, of the Atcbison railroad, says the lower tariff will not reduce transportation company receipts. And yet a well known man ufacturer in Camden tells me that the Underwood bill actually threat ens to take away every dollar of his profit. Whatever else it is, the tariff ques tion remains the prize economic enigma in this country. To Prevent Blood Poisoning apply at once the .wonderful old reliante DR. PORTER'S ANTISEPTIC HEALING Ol?., a sur gical dressing that relieves pain and heals at the same time. Not c liniment. 25c. 50c. $1.00. Tlie Marshal of the Turtles. (Parma Victor.) Recently A. L. Keller, of New Mad rid county, shipped into Parma from Tallipoosa 85 turtles, aggregating 7 80 pounds. They will be reshipped to domestic markets and made into turtle soup. lt ls some distance from the breeding grounds to the Tallipoosa depot and it is necessary for Keller to "drive" his flock of turtles several blocks or so beforo he can load them on a fiat car. One of 1 Keller's pets is an old bull turtle ! that has been trained as a sort ot bellwether to make the trip. Keller tie? a piece of red flannel rag around the turtle's neck, and points him up the street, toward the depot. Then he gives him a shove and hollers, "Beal it!" The turtle lights out and the string behind obediently follows the flannel rag. When tlie odd cara van reaches the flat car the bull tur tle eyes Keller as If asking If lie has performed his work aright, and then turns around slowly and wanders back to the breeding grounds. ELECTRIC B^flKf* BITTERS AND KI ONE YR "Old Hickory" Stick for Wilson. Wichita, Kan., Dec. 22.-A hick ory walking stick carried by An drew Jackson when lie was elected President, wan sent hy parcel post Saturday to President Wilson as a Christmas present from Levi W. Lud Inm, of this city. Andrew Jackson gave the stick to Marney Fox, his neighbor, In Tennessee. Later Fox gave it to Ludlum with the under standing that when Ludlum got too old to "go out much" he should pre sent it to a Democratic President. Ask the Bc how he raised the Blue Ribbon In Boys' Clubs all .over the < boy who uses the right fertilize! POT to make a solid, \ Use 200 to 500 green or stable m use contains 8 to Ask your deal doesn't we will s soo lb. bag up, a Don't GERM Cbica i astclcss chili Tonic is Equally because it Acts on the Liver, ics the Blood and Builds up rown People and Children, you take Grove'? Tasteless chill Tonic showing that it contains the well known ?J. It is as strong as the strongest bitter no equal for Malaria, Chills and Fever, appetite. Gives life and vigor to Nursing Removes Biliousness without purging, irits. Arouses the liver to action and re Appetizer. A Complete Strengthener, ced by your Druggist. We mean it. 50c. Nebraskans Making Money. (Gov. C. H. Aldrich, in Leslie's.) As a stock raising State Nebraska stands pre-eminently at the head of the list owing to the fact that stock can be fattened upon the natural range, and the corn belt affords sup plementary food of the highest qual ity. With soil and climate particu larly adapted to tho successful grow ing of all important forage plants, corn and root crops, with its unlim ited wealth of natural grasses, and an abundance of the best water, Ne braska ls foremost in the dairying States. Poultry raising is considered an Important by-product of the farm in this State, adding to our yearly resources in 1911 $43,000,000. The principal crops of Nebraska are corn, wheat, oats, barley, rye, al falfa, hay, potatoes, sugar beets, sor ghum cane, kafflr corn, speltz, broom corn, orchard products and garden vegetables of all kinds. Nebraska produced In 1912, In staple crop val ues, $238,400,391; orchard crops, $7,878,899; manufacturing pro ducts, $168.368.383; surplus or by products, such as live stock and dressed poultry, eggs, etc., $73,822, 663; live stock, $144,892,205; mak ing a grand total valuation of $633, 908,541. This was $531.70 per cap ita, or $2,658.50 per family. Stomach Troubles Disappear. Stomach, liver and kidney trou bles, weak nerves, lame back and fe male ills disappear when Electric Bitters are used. Thousands of wo men would net be without a bottle in their home, v'l'za Pool, of Depew, Okla., writes; "Electric Bitters rais ed me from a bed of sickness *nd suf fering and lias done me a world of good. I wish every suffering woman could use this excellent remedy and find out, as I did, just how good lt i is." As it has helped thousands of I others, it surely will do the same for I you. Every bottle guaranteed. 50c. and $1. At all druggists. H. E. , Budden & Co., Philadelphia or St. Louis. adv. When Wit Won. (Tit-Bits.) "Why do you object to vaccina tion?" asked the busy magistrate, sharply, of the applicant for an ex emption certificate. "It's a matter of conscience, sir," was the reply. At that moment the clerk whisper ed to the great man on the bench. "Ah!" said his worship. "I am informed that you have a brother on the police force. Xow, does he ob ject to having his children vaccinat ed?" "No, sir." "Very well; if vaccination is not against your brother's conscience, why should it bc against yours?" "Well, you seo, sir, it doesn't ex actly follow. Bill, as you're talking about, has gol neither children nor conscience." Ile got his certificate. CHICHESTER S PILLS DIAMOND XSy^^L BRAND LADIES ! ^--r A?k jour i>rufc*ut for CTII-CHHS-TBR 9 DIAMOND HKAND PIL.I.S in RKD and Coi.II metallic boxes, sealed with Blu Rilit.cm. YA KB NO OTHER. Iluy oF your DriiKffI** and ?ak for eil LOM K.M-'l f ll H DIAMOND nu A NO Fii.i.s, for twenty-five years regarded as Best, Sa fest, Always Reliablt. SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS figS, EVERYWHERE S?? ?y Who Won ear. country the prizes are going to the r. That means enough ASH veil filled, and perfectly shaped ear. pounds Kainit per acre to balance either anure and be sure that the fertilizer you io per cent Potash. er to carry goods of that grade. If he ell you any amount of Potash, from one nd you can add it yourself. forget thU, for Potath Paye AN KAU WORKS, Inc 42 Broadway. New York go, McCormick Block; New Orleans. Whitney Central Bank Blair.-. Atlanta, Empire Bldjr.i San Francisco. 25 California St.; Savannah. Bank & Trust Bldg.